4.1 • 885 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 29 minutes
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The inside story of art in hotel rooms - and why hoteliers think it's so important to get it right. Ian McMillan has always been fascinated by the artworks he finds on his travels. Here he encounters mass produced flowers, abstract excitement and ancient artefacts. In three very different hotel bedrooms he meets curators, designers and artists - but most importantly he meets the art, and asks why we have ‘art’ hotels .
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0:00.0 | This was an impregnable fortress. The only way you get out was in a wooden box. |
0:05.0 | The controversial maximum security prison impossible to escape from. |
0:09.0 | And one of the duties of a political prisoner is the escape. |
0:12.0 | The IRA inmates who found a way. of a political prisoner is the escape. |
0:12.5 | The IRA inmates who found a way. |
0:14.5 | I'm Carlo Gableer and I'll be navigating a path |
0:19.5 | through the disturbing inside story of the biggest jailbreak in British and Irish history. |
0:25.0 | The narrative that they want is that this is a big achievement by them. |
0:28.5 | Escape from the Maze, listen first on BBC Sounds. |
0:36.0 | BBC Sounds, BBC Sounds, Music Radio Podcasts. |
0:39.0 | Welcome to Seriously from BBC Radio 4. |
0:43.2 | I'm Vanessa Kasule. |
0:45.0 | If you love unique documentaries, this is the podcast for you. |
0:49.3 | Here comes something unusual, charming and seriously fascinating. |
0:54.1 | Hang on, that must be room service. |
0:58.0 | Oh, it's you, Radio Four Listeners. |
1:01.0 | Come in to my fantasy hotel room room a product of sound effects and |
1:05.1 | imagination with a built-in wardrobe of the mind to hang my ideas in. |
1:10.0 | You've caught me here in the middle of one of my obsessions looking at and thinking about the kind of art you get in hotels. |
1:17.5 | I've been thinking lying here on this really comfortable bed, it's the closest I'll ever be to art that I don't own if only for a night. |
1:25.8 | So the question is, is this a painting of flowers or of the art in this hotel is a photograph of a camera's lens pointing at me at |
1:37.0 | just a clock leaning slightly sideways. All over the world, guests are doing the same, |
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